Photoshop – A Birthday Gift

A few days ago, I went out with my close friends for that thing you do once a year. We ate Chinese food and drove up and down town and I finally buckled down and bought Adobe Photoshop Elements 13 from the local Best Buy. Scratch that. I bought a Photoshop & Premier Elements combo pack…cause…why the hell not?

So, I sat to work getting the learning curve taken care of, using only the vanilla mode.

(For those of you unfamiliar, ‘Vanilla’ is a term to describe the default set of tools / graphics / features in a product.)

Turned out, while the learning curve in Photoshop took some getting used to, I managed to figure out most of the basic features in the following few hours as I worked to create a cover for some of my books. Primarily, I was working on Short Change. My blog post had gotten mixed reviews from family, friends and strangers, so I worked to create a more symbolic cover. With the Steel Soldier rough draft almost completed (1 Chapter away), I needed to have a cover that could essentially palette swap with a different core graphic for the remainder of the series. Also, I looked into what I could do to improve some of my other covers.

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Brett (1986) was born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut and is an author of short fiction and serialized stories who teaches game design at Lake Land College and writes about Science Fiction & Super Heroes.
Brett Graduated from Lake Land College with an Associates Degree and a Certificate in Game Development. He graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 2015 with a Bachelors in Education and currently teaches Indie Game Development at Lake Land College.
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